Observe Occupy: Watch the tactical evolution of their 'revolution'

Hey cops. Quite honestly, your thug behavior is unConstitutional and utterly out of control. When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail, eh? Whatever happened to the Bill of Rights? Ever read the 1st Amendment? Who the hell is telling you that a people-powered movement working for the betterment of the country is a terrorist organization!? Why the hell would you believe them!? "People are getting together to work peacefully for the betterment of the country. Let's beat them!" (facepalm) Mr. Marcou, how did the kettled women Anthony Bologna pepper-sprayed without warning, much less those he later pepper-sprayed from behind, merit this response, or anything even remotely approaching it? You are neither factoring nor revealing that cops can be very, very bad people and act out of both pure aggression and utterly lawlessness. This is what we see. This is how we know you, unless you show us something exceptionally different.

You talk about watching the endless amounts of video on youtube...how have you possibly missed the endless police brutality and nuisance arrests of those utilizing the Constitution, which you somehow also feel inclined to mention?

Police have recently lost two trial cases for lying under oath, or "perjury". Thou shalt not bear false witness. How is this your job?

One of our Occupy LA brothers was arrested in Chicago by a cop who claimed he was punched in the chest and knocked off his bike. Our brother's fellow Occupiers witnessed this and told an entirely different story, but what made their truth stick, was the NLG Observer who saw the cop grabbed our man by the collar. Utter lies. This is how we see you.

Your job is to support the laws of this country. The Bill of Rights comes first, before any nit-picking subsequent legislative sophistic anfraction. You are not seeing the forest for your own trees: WE are scared of YOU. We know Rodney King, we know Kelly Thomas, we know how many people of color are profiled and killed with neither cause nor justice...and we're afraid of the day one of you turns a gun upon us. Because we have little to no reason to believe you will not. THAT is the hardest part, and should be the deal-breaker. STOP your illegal violence against this peaceful movement that is working to change the world for the better. You are in danger of attracting the violent fringe of society to gather and act against you, through your continuing brutality and lawlessness. This is NOT a threat, that is NOT reverse psychology; this is my fear. =I= want peace. You are in danger of being a self-fulfilling prophecy, of creating that which you fear. Leave us alone, leave us alone. We chant for you to, and you do not. Over and over and over. For nearly a year. I =hate= violence. I'm a coward like that. I loathe the thought of the day one of us dies at your illegal hands. I loathe the thought of the day some nutjob hurts one of you and draws down the death of one or more of us. It is entirely upon you, and you utterly fail to see that. In =always= escalating, in always bullying in an attempt to control, you breed fear and contempt in those who are working to be free, and attract those who -want- to fight you. The mechanism of escalation and bullying to Control, fails. It is obsolete, and only creates problems.

STOP.

Your best and only response to a movement of people who want to be free, is to let them be free.

Do you know what will happen then?

Freedom.

The cops I saw 15+ deep against the fully peaceful Veteran's rally in Chicago is not the answer. Does this look like freedom, or a clarion call to rebellion? This is not the answer. This is the Problem. All you see in us is some nebulous potential for violence, and you are picking at our edges to attempt to draw it out. Just leave us alone. You are SICK! You are BRUTAL. And you have no problem with it. You don't give us points for good behavior, so to speak. You only see violence, and work to actually create it.

The entire onus is upon YOU. We use cameras to PROTECT OURSELVES from your lawlessness. I myself captured one of you repeatedly punching an Occupier who was being held immobile by other cops. Some cops attempted to block me from capturing it, but there it is. It did not appear in the police report, did it? His case was thrown out! Two days later a cop shoved me away from recording my fellows being arrested...and then refused to provide his name and badge number. I repeatedly and loudly requested it and neither he nor the 36+ officers present would help. This officer DID spend time smiling at me, however.

We know how this works, and must protect ourselves.

Why do I have to even point this out? How is this not howlingly obvious? We know Chicago police targeted women, children, the elderly, and journalists. SHAME on you. SHAME! We are your brothers and sisters. We are your husbands and wives. We are your children and parents. SHAME ON YOU. Leave us alone, let us be free, and notice the difference. Create peace and freedom instead of fear and brutality. All of your actions are going to create -something-, so please choose them wisely. And ignore orders creating pain and chaos. Don't we have enough of that already? Why are you fighting people who are working to improve the world? Who the hell gives orders to destroy a movement working to better the world? Think about it.

(Sorry that my blog's color scheme offsets the reblogged text colors; please highlight the below comments section for some telling discussion, including calling all Occupiers "Ass clowns". And see my article What are cops nation-wide saying about Occupy? Glad you asked! regarding what cops have been caught saying about us. The truth will set you free.)

Observe Occupy: Watch the tactical evolution of their 'revolution'

During
the NATO Summit, Chicago law enforcers are facing the cutting edge of
what the Occupy Wall Street Movement call 'a revolution'

The long-anticipated NATO Summit has arrived in Chicago. The
Chicago Police Department has planned and trained extensively for
anticipation of protests, to insure the NATO meeting can take place,
protestors can make their point peacefully, and the city of Chicago can
experience a financial boon in today’s tough economy.
For the Chicago Police Department, “It’s all over but the shoutin’,” as the saying goes.
Our thoughts prayers and hope for safety and success goes out to
every member of the Chicago Police Department, while facing this
difficult challenge.

Expert Analysis

Policing First Amendment events
By Doug Wyllie, PoliceOne Editor in Chief
One
of the most valuable freedoms guaranteed by the United States
Constitution is the right of persons and groups to peaceably assemble.

In 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a resource called The Role of Law Enforcement at First Amendment Events.
“As part of their duty to uphold the United States Constitution, law
enforcement officers have the responsibility to protect persons engaged
in their right to peaceably assemble,” the document says.

The DOJ advises that officers are on site to “protect life and
property” and to “ensure that all privacy, civil rights, and civil
liberties protections are upheld.” The DOJ guidance goes on to say that
officers shall not:

The
Occupy movement was relatively dormant though the winter, but now that
spring has sprung, we can be assured that these events will be back —
and possibly back with a vengeance.

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The Professional Protestor
There are thousands who have planned and trained long and hard for this
event coming to Chicago (as well as other events in cities around the
world). Those in training are the professional protestors. This is the
era of the professional protester. You will see the sum total of that
planning, training in action at the NATO Summit. The meeting will bring
together the passionate the professional as well as the pathetic. It
will bring together the apathetic, the angry, the peaceful and quite
possibly the violent.
Chicago is facing the cutting edge of what the Occupy Wall Street Movement call “a revolution.”
Politicians must pay attention to the “revolution,” while it behooves
law enforcement nation-wide to pay a great deal of attention to the
“evolution” of the movement’s tactics.
From the Occupy Wall Street web site it describes the movement as follows:
“Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless resistance movement with people
of many colors genders and political persuasiveness. The one thing we
all have in common is that we are the 99% that will no longer tolerate
the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab
Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence
to maximize the safety of all participants.”
Even though they state they are dedicated to nonviolence law enforcement has discovered violence follows the movement.Opportunity for Law Enforcement
What is for Chicago an incredible challenge is an opportunity for every
other officer, especially members and commanders of Civil Unrest Teams
to set your DVRs on record. Then watch back and replay all footage and
follow the after action reporting from all angles. The tactics employed
by the demonstration’s peaceful members as well as those, who appear to
deliberately break off to trigger violence should be assessed and
analyzed to prepare for your meeting with your version of “Occupy.”
Note how the competing — peaceful versus violent — groups operate.
Watch their:

Footage Beyond The News Coverage
There will be plenty of raw footage available on youtube.com. There will
be more than you can even watch recorded sometimes with uncut
commentary by the protesters. You will be able to get a unique
perspective of the demonstrators. You will discover many fervently wish
to gather peacefully and others are attempting to orchestrate something
very different. When the two groups collide violence often erupts within
the occupy groups. You may actually see the pacifists fighting with the
anarchists attempting to keep the demonstration peaceful.
The list goes on, because protester tactics continue to evolve.
Sometimes they evolve to counter law enforcement, but sometimes they
evolve, because of the international collaboration of these groups. You
can see the international influence of the “leaderless resistance
movement” and read about their “revolutionary Arab Spring tactics.”
Thanks to the thousands of recorders operating in Chicago and at
every event — as well as the willingness of many to post what they have
recorded — all of law enforcement will be able to watch and learn. What
happens in Chicago— beginning today and for the duration of the NATO
Summit — will enable law enforcement better be able to protect the
sanctity of the constitution while facilitating those that wish to
peacefully assemble on both sides of the police lines.
Make no mistake about it. It is also just as important for law
enforcement to prepare for those, who would interject violence into
these demonstrations. The right to assemble violently is not a right
protected by the constitution.
The line between a peaceful assembly and violence has always been and
always will be best occupied by the honorable members of the thin blue
line.
Prepare!

About the author

Dan Marcou retired as a highly decorated police lieutenant and SWAT
Commander with 33 years of full time law enforcement experience. He is a
nationally recognized police trainer in many police disciplines and is a
Master Trainer in the State of Wisconsin. He has authored three novels
The Calling: The Making of a Veteran Cop , S.W.A.T. Blue Knights in Black Armor, and Nobody's Heroes are all available at Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com. Visit his website and contact Dan Marcou

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Our biggest fear in DC was always the lone wolf nut case. But let
me warn you guys out there. We as Law Enforcement are not taking the
combat arm of Occupy seriously! Anyone who truely thinks that the Black
Brigade, annarcist and others like them are not part of Occupy are
wrong. These folks are as militant as they come and would not hesitate
to stoop to planting a shooter if it meant spreading panic and violence.
Do not for a moment believe that the "leaderless" Occupy movement does
not invite these folks, or that they are not aware of thier abilities.
While the majority of the Occupy folks do not have a clue, the muilitant
arm does! They have more then a clue, they have an adjenda! they will
provoke you, and create the violence to make you react.

Use their own tactics against them. Video taping the ass clowns goes a long way to deter.

On
a seperate issue,I would hope there would be designated marksman
monitoring the situation as well. All it takes is one psycho with a gun
to start shooting innocents. A very bad deal if these protesters go that
route.

I would hope agencies also plan on having their own cameras
strategically placed and cooridnated with the movements of the crowd to
document criminal activity and counter the inevitable selectively edited
footage that the protestors will try to put out...We've done that
before with UC officers appearing to be part of the
crowd....Fortunately, we had no major incidents of violent clashes...but
the UC officers did record some criminal activity going on in the
crowds..

@richcecil: Thats the key!...Dont do the protestors' job for them and give them something to video and further inflame them....

having dealt with these people, you also need to remeber: A lot of
what they do is staged to bring YOU into the altercation. Legal
advisers will be there with the sole intent to document your mistakes
and use them later in court! Do not let you emotions get you in trouble.
Do protect YOUR Rights and YOUR back! Sometime, as much as we hate it,
not arresting defeats them more then anything else. Flexable and fluid!